Grant: Strategic Projects - Group
Carleton University
$98,000.00
Structural health monitoring of the Confederation Bridge: From innovation to engineering practices
EF 2007-08
Résumé
Structural health monitoring (SHM) has become the subject of intense research in recent years because of the increasing need for efficient and cost-effective management of infrastructure, and assessment of their reliability. As part of this global research effort, researchers at Carleton University and the University of Calgary have carried out a large-scale university-government-industry research project on the long-term monitoring of the performance of the Confederation Bridge since its opening in 1997. Very large amounts of data have been systematically collected by a sophisticated data acquisition system in order to assess the performance of the structure. The main goal of the monitoring project is to obtain information on the health and/or condition of the bridge by intelligent processing of the monitoring data so as to detect unexpected deterioration of the structure that may reduce the design reliability of the structure, and/or its service life. The Safety and Security of Canada's infrastructure is integral to our National Security Policy. As such, the assessment of infrastructure components for their risk and reliability, and having the technological capabilities to detect the effects of age and use on their risk and reliability, are the major elements and fundamental to the formulation of such a security policy. This proposal addresses the development of tools that strengthen Canadais ability to assess the risk and reliability of its national infrastructure, and research on cutting edge numerical techniques to detect events or phenomena that can have a serious impact on the safety and security of critical infrastructure. This proposal also addresses the issue of the management of huge amounts of data in a Distributed Networked Environment for the real-time assessment of structural performance and reliability. The proposed research serves as a test-bed project to develop innovative numerical techniques and algorithms to advance the field of structural health monitoirng from innovations to engineering practice in the field.
Programme
Strategic Projects - Group
Bénéficiaire
Emplacement
Ontario, Canada
Type de bénéficiaire
Academia
Type
Grant
Source
NSERC's Awards Data
Tel que publié
Application id
336533-2006
Name nom
Lau, David
Department département
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Organization id
23
Institution établissement
Carleton University
Province en
Ontario
Province fr
Ontario
Country en
CANADA
Country fr
CANADA
Fiscal year exercice financier
2007
Competition year année de concours
2006
Award amount
98000
Program id
STPGP
Program name en
Strategic Projects - Group
Program name fr
Projets stratégiques - De groupe
Group en
Research partnerships programs
Group fr
Programmes de partenariat
Committee code
1046
Committee name en
Strategic Projects Selection Panel - Safety and Security
Committee name fr
Comité de sélection des projets stratégiques - Sécurité
Area of application code
601
Area of application group en
Construction, urban and rural planning
Area of application group fr
Construction, urbanisme et aménagement rural
Area of application en
Structural engineering
Area of application fr
Génie des charpentes
Research subject code
1100
Research subject group en
Structural engineering
Research subject group fr
Génie des structures
Research subject en
Structural engineering
Research subject fr
Génie des structures
Partie
2
Nb partie
3
Application title
Structural health monitoring of the Confederation Bridge: From innovation to engineering practices
Keyword
NA
Application summary
Structural health monitoring (SHM) has become the subject of intense research in recent years because of the increasing need for efficient and cost-effective management of infrastructure, and assessment of their reliability. As part of this global research effort, researchers at Carleton University and the University of Calgary have carried out a large-scale university-government-industry research project on the long-term monitoring of the performance of the Confederation Bridge since its opening in 1997. Very large amounts of data have been systematically collected by a sophisticated data acquisition system in order to assess the performance of the structure. The main goal of the monitoring project is to obtain information on the health and/or condition of the bridge by intelligent processing of the monitoring data so as to detect unexpected deterioration of the structure that may reduce the design reliability of the structure, and/or its service life. The Safety and Security of Canada's infrastructure is integral to our National Security Policy. As such, the assessment of infrastructure components for their risk and reliability, and having the technological capabilities to detect the effects of age and use on their risk and reliability, are the major elements and fundamental to the formulation of such a security policy. This proposal addresses the development of tools that strengthen Canadais ability to assess the risk and reliability of its national infrastructure, and research on cutting edge numerical techniques to detect events or phenomena that can have a serious impact on the safety and security of critical infrastructure. This proposal also addresses the issue of the management of huge amounts of data in a Distributed Networked Environment for the real-time assessment of structural performance and reliability. The proposed research serves as a test-bed project to develop innovative numerical techniques and algorithms to advance the field of structural health monitoirng from innovations to engineering practice in the field.
